Past Tense

Anarcho-syndicalist magazine published by the Solidarity Federation. Articles on reality TV cop shows, education collectives in the Spanish…
Dockers on strike, London 1889
A short account of the mass strike in London which spread from the great docks strike in the East End and peaked on 1 September with up to 300…
240 families on rent strike in Quinn Square, Bethnal Green, circa 1938
On 13 February, 1938, a rent strike began in Stepney, east London. This is an account of tenants' struggles in the area at the time, by Past…
The South London Women's Hospital occupation
A compilation of writings put together by Past Tense on hospital occupations and work-ins in the UK from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Press coverage of the Mental Patients Union
Historical information about the Mental Patients Union, formed in London in 1973 to oppose psychiatric oppression, compiled by Past Tense.